Movies

Culture

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Grapples With Love, Death, and CGI

Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone return in an overwrought arachnid adventure.

Kurt Loder | 5.2.2014 9:00 AM

Culture

Revolution in Tahrir Square

Matthew Feeney | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Culture

Love Among the Foster Children

Scott Shackford | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Civil Liberties

"God is Dead. Except at the Box Office": Nick Gillespie at Time.com

Nick Gillespie | 4.25.2014 9:24 AM

Culture

The Other Woman Brings New Twists to Chick Flicks

Leslie Mann classes up a predictable movie that has a light, jaunty comic rhythm.

Kurt Loder | 4.25.2014 9:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Looking Back at Hollywood's Pre-Code Era

Before the censorship intensified.

Jesse Walker | 4.23.2014 11:10 AM

Culture

In Your Eyes: A DIY showcase

Joss Whedon's newest flick isn't just a great new movie. Its distribution model may be the future of great new movies.

Kurt Loder | 4.21.2014 11:30 AM

Culture

Transcendence

Johnny Depp and Rebecca Hall in a low-key digital love story.

Kurt Loder | 4.18.2014 9:00 AM

Politics

Justin Amash Digs Captain America Movie, Slags NSA Surveillance

Nick Gillespie | 4.17.2014 10:43 AM

Culture

Only Lovers Left Alive

Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston out for blood.

Kurt Loder | 4.11.2014 9:00 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Spiritual Teacher/Congressional Candidate Marianne Williamson, Actress Judy Greer, TV Personality Annabelle Gurwitch, Punk Rocker Walter Schreifels, Pallid Commie-Hater Michael Moynihan, Plus After-Show!

Matt Welch | 4.9.2014 5:36 PM

Politics

Is Rob Lowe a Libertarian? "I Want the Government Out of Almost Everything."

Nick Gillespie | 4.7.2014 3:33 PM

Culture

Mickey Rooney, RIP

Death finds Andy Hardy.

Jesse Walker | 4.7.2014 2:05 PM

Civil Liberties

Captain America vs. Obama's Kill List

Peter Suderman | 4.4.2014 12:48 PM

Culture

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Chris Evans takes on the national-security state.

Kurt Loder | 4.4.2014 9:00 AM

Police

Not Just Hollywood: Nearly a Dozen Police Cruisers Respond to Possible "Crazed" DUI Suspect; Cops Come Guns Drawn

Ed Krayewski | 4.2.2014 2:15 PM

Culture

Uneasy Riders

Matthew Feeney | 3.31.2014 7:00 AM

Culture

Cheap Thrills

David Koechner playing for keeps.

Kurt Loder | 3.29.2014 12:00 PM

Policy

Tonight on The Independents: Rise of the Machines! (Bumped)

Matt Welch | 3.28.2014 8:07 PM

Culture

Noah

Russell Crowe at the end of the world.

Kurt Loder | 3.28.2014 9:00 AM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: A Nightmare Vision of a World Without Congress

The 1947 "instructional" film The Powers of Congress

Jesse Walker | 3.21.2014 9:10 AM

Culture

Divergent and Nymphomaniac: Volume I

Shailene Woodley breaks out, Lars von Trier goes all the way.

Kurt Loder | 3.21.2014 9:00 AM

Culture

Veronica Mars and Grand Piano

Kristen Bell back on the case, Elijah Wood playing for his life.

Kurt Loder | 3.14.2014 9:00 AM

Politics

Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who is John Galt?

The novel that praises the sanctity of money becomes a movie that's a labor of love over budgets.

Brian Doherty | 3.12.2014 4:31 PM

Culture

The Grand Budapest Hotel and 300: Rise of an Empire

Ralph Fiennes between two wars, ancient Greeks back in the thick of one.

Kurt Loder | 3.7.2014 9:00 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Ukraine, Oscars, Pot Commercials, Bone Marrow Transplants, My Brother's Keeper, De Blasio's Attacks on Charter Schools, and a Mournful After-Show Featuring the Deceased Lysander Spooner

Matt Welch | 3.3.2014 8:32 PM

Culture

For Anyone Who Wonders What Thomas Frank Thinks of the Films of Harold Ramis…

Liberals do not "own the imagery of subversion and outsiderness."

Jesse Walker | 3.3.2014 1:36 PM

Culture

Gravity Wins Seven Academy Awards

Including best director

Reason Staff | 3.3.2014 8:30 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: The Grouchy Oscars! Featuring Kurt Loder, Kyle Smith, Virginia Postrel, Linda Obst, and More

Matt Welch | 2.28.2014 5:13 PM

Politics

How American Movies and a Brave Translator Gave Hope to Oppressed Romanians

Matt Welch | 2.28.2014 1:38 PM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: Dungeons & Dragons Will Melt Your Mind!

The 1982 film Mazes and Monsters

Jesse Walker | 2.28.2014 11:49 AM

Culture

Non-Stop

Up in the air with Liam Neeson and a planeload of improbabilities.

Kurt Loder | 2.28.2014 9:00 AM

Economics

No, It Isn't Surprising That Ghostbusters Mocked the Government

Anti-authoritarian movies and anti-authoritarian public policy

Jesse Walker | 2.27.2014 1:21 PM

Culture

Harold Ramis and the Death of Baby Boomer Subversiveness

Nick Gillespie | 2.25.2014 4:40 PM

Culture

Ghostbusters Actor Harold Ramis Dies

He was 69

Reason Staff | 2.24.2014 3:10 PM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: Fascism, Anarchy, and Democracy in After-School Clubs

Kurt Lewin's experiment in leadership styles: the movie

Jesse Walker | 2.21.2014 1:03 PM

Culture

Pompeii

Kit Harington vs. the volcano.

Kurt Loder | 2.21.2014 9:00 AM

Policy

How Much of That Oscar Statue Did You End Up Paying For?

Governments do their job of propping up the rich

Scott Shackford | 2.19.2014 2:10 PM

Culture

The Pretty One

Zoe Kazan shines again in a case of mistaken identity.

Kurt Loder | 2.14.2014 9:00 AM

Culture

Win a Free Copy of The United States of Paranoia

And check out the new Web series This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory.

Jesse Walker | 2.13.2014 2:28 PM

Culture

Sid Caesar Dead at 91

Comic legend

Reason Staff | 2.12.2014 4:40 PM

Movies

LA Entertainment Reporter Mistakes Samuel Jackson for Lawrence Fishburne

Jackson calls reporter "as crazy as the people on Twitter"

Reason Staff | 2.11.2014 7:00 PM

Politics

The Bizarre New Deal Comedy That Made Shirley Temple a Star

Watch the 1934 movie Stand Up and Cheer.

Jesse Walker | 2.11.2014 10:03 AM

Culture

Shirley Temple Dead at 85

The former child movie star served as U.S. ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia

Reason Staff | 2.11.2014 7:30 AM

Culture

Hunger Games to Be Completed with CGI Philip Seymour Hoffman

Had some scenes left to film before he died

Reason Staff | 2.7.2014 7:00 PM

Culture

The Monuments Men

George Clooney fights a losing battle with a tale of art and war.

Kurt Loder | 2.7.2014 9:00 AM

Politics

Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death Is Government's Fault, Says Congressman

Zenon Evans | 2.5.2014 3:53 PM

Politics

School Shooting Hits Russia Despite Prohibitive Gun Laws

Zenon Evans | 2.4.2014 3:55 PM